Political analysts have said that Donnelly has a better chance of beating Mourdock than Lugar in the general election.

The establishment wanted the grassroots to believe that Mourdock didn’t have a chance, and now Donnelly is picking up those discarded talking points, getting a jumpstart on Mourdock for the fall. The unfortunate reality for the establishment is that Mourdock has just as good a chance of defeating Donnelly as Lugar; the inability to convey that lies with the Indiana GOP, not Mourdock or the grassroots.

Donnelly is focusing on Mourdock’s unique battle against the automotive package which bailed out unions at a cost to the public and nationalized a portion of the automotive industry. That Donnelly sees the government as the ultimate arbiter of winners and losers in the private sector is a win for Mourdock and the majority of Americans who are tired of such Obama policies.

The only people who can screw up the messaging at this point are the Indiana GOP. Let’s hope they don’t allow Lugar to get too desperate in his final failing bid to beat Mourdock.